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NFL GUN CONTROVERSY

Bob Costas Calls for Gun Control After Belcher Murder-Suicide

Was he right to bring politics into an NFL broadcast?

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by Mary Noble

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After Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and himself on Saturday, Bob Costas gave a controversial half-time speech arguing that tougher gun control would have prevented the tragedy.

Costas quoted an op-ed by fellow sports commentator Jason Whitlock, who stated that "if [Belcher] didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."

The speech caused outcry on Twitter from some conservatives:

Todd Kincannon: Yes, Bob Costas, guns are the problem. Nicole Brown Simpson would be alive today if OJ hadn't shot her with that knife.

Michelle Malkin: Gun rights supporters to Costas: What about Casper, Wyo., bow-and-arrow killings? http://twitchy.com/2012/12/02/gun-rights-supporters-to-costas-what-about-casper-wyo-bow-and-arrow-killings/

Brit Hume: Bob Costas quotes KC sportswriter to make gun control case re: Jovan Belcher murder/suicide. Cites all known gun control cliches.

Via the New York Daily News, Fox Sports, and Twitter.

Posted Dec 3, 4am PST.
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    RobertJHarsh
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    2nd tier? You're given that jackweed Costas way too much credit. That guy ranks about five or six spots behind Chyna (think WWE). So who cares what he thinks.
  • marine1
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    He is a half witted,back asswards incompetent liberal that is unwilling to recognize and admit that the real problem is the lack of moral responsibility in this country. We have destroyed the expectation of personal responsibility and any consequence that use to come with poor choices. It has NEVER been the gun,the knife,the stones or the club. It has always been the poor moral choice of the individual, and our morals have without a doubt been eroding for many many years and who are the proponents of less morality in this country?
  • Your_Name_Here
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    Thousands of people die every year due to to drunk drivers. We need car control. We need alcohol control. We all know how well prohibition worked. This guy is black, do we need black person control? Every time someone is killed with a gun, do you know what that means? It means there are tens of millions of guns that didn't kill anyone. People like Costas aren't too bright so you have to expect comments like this.
  • time_is
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    Honestly, every once in a while, a car has a ton of explosives in it. You really should count gun deaths caused by any American wherever they are. I believe we already have enough legislation designed for Black person control. Perhaps, if Pride in Traitors wasn't jumbled and descrambled to produce P in place of an R and added to atriots, I'd be a little more convinced of you needing to be armed. But since, traitors thought it a good idea to rebel against the crown, wanting everyone to speak freely and bear arms was more of a distrust of themselves than securing the borders ordeal.

    A bigger issue is the " We Will Take You Too" religion which many of you cling to, provided courtesy of Israelites ousted from their homeland, in an effort to get as many idiots as possible. Homosexual Church of Jesus, White Knights of Jesus but no Jews allowed. Hold The Monsignor's Pecker Cathedral of Desire. and the list goes on and on. So, when someone is asking you to give up In Guns You Trust or In God You Trust, there's no need to convene congress to take a vote nor expect sanity to be exercised in regards to anything you're asking for or claiming to need. Like, "We want our country back?" But you're still claiming to have rights to vote, own weapons and talk as if a heavy dose of Jim Jones' Koolaid has been chilling in the rear of your refrigerator, pushed back by the case of beer. Which coincidentally isn't doing anything to quell your uncertainties.

    Fortunately, for you, your uncertainties might need that gun you're continuously cleaning as if an attempt to remove the color is your objective. With Pride comes, equally yoked, Disappointment just as Betrayal runs step for step with Trust. 300 to 400 million guns with 50 million of them supposedly lost or stolen pretty much has me feeling very comfortable. Especially, with the Trayvon Martin case still out. Did you notice a decrease in those so-called "Self-Defense Shootings", after that? It proved that Whites are just scared and those guns' barrels are used for them to pray in. " Oh dear heavenly father, it's dark down there, please show me the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm going to put all my faith and trust in your lord. If I pull this trigger and the round doesn't rip my eyeball through the back of my skull, I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life to you lord. In stupidity's name I pray, I'll stay tuned for updates.
  • stepped_in_it
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    Not just no, but hell no (again). Costas should stick with what he knows best, which isn't much! As for his take that gun control would have saved this football player, he is wrong....DEAD WRONG (no pun intended). People commit murder/suicide in many ways and forms. Though guns are the easier way, if someone really wants to commit the act, they will find a way! What's next to control? Hammers, picks, knifes.....etc? Guns (and other assorted weapons) don't kill people, people kill people (and have done it since we EVOLVED to walking on two legs....but that's another argument!) bahaha
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    Polusalo
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    Eh, if he wanted to say it, he can. I mean, it's pretty much wrong, but it's his right to say it if he wants. The notion that this man wouldn't have killed another and himself if he didn't have access to a gun is a pretty far stretch.
  • Neo_NtheMatrix
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    Let's talk guns and welfare.

    A guy gets a gun illegally and kills someone. Liberals say ban all guns, they kill people.

    A woman gets food stamps she doesn't need and is just milking the system, liberals say we can't kill welfare for all because some truly need welfare. Well, why ban guns for all? Some people need to be able to protect themselves.

    Liberals are hypocrites and they know it!
  • DyingBreed
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    @jamie91 Actually, it kind of is. You are just "conservative" on gun control. That probably doesn't taste good to you, but take pride in it. It means you are capable of rational thought above partisan politics.
  • jamie91
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    @DyingBreed I have a bitter taste with having a party label slapped on everything. Not all people who vote liberal hate guns and love unions. Just as not every conservative is a homosexual hating Christian. I don't allow my party affiliations to dictate my thoughts.
  • Tralee
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    @jamie91 Love your attitude, I just wish more liberals subscribed to it. I too get tired of being labeled as a nut case simply because I am a conservative. Honestly, so many libs. act as if we are slobbering idiots incapable of stringing two words together to make a sentence. The lib. standard response to anyone with conservative views is to slap them with the "stupid idiot" label.
  • DyingBreed
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    @jamie91 Conservative is not a political affiliation, its an ideological label. Everything fits into a scale of liberal/conservative (though the labels change, depending on current circumstances. e.g. modern conservatives would be considered very liberal 100 years ago).
    I understand you hating the labels being tossed about though, and if you replace "conservative" with "Republican" and "liberal" with "Democrat" in what you just said, I would totally agree.
    I can tell, despite the fact that we may stand at opposite sides of the spectrum on many issues, you and I could have a civil political discussion, and I appreciate that quality in a person. Many people just have the idea of "slap a label on them, then hate them" and you do not express that idea.
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    NO-BAMA
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    He's a clown.
    When is the government going to ban swimming? More kids die every year by drowning than by guns.
    Plus, I want to know how this dummy knows for a FACT, that if there was no gun present that they would still be alive? If one person is going to kill another person. They will find a way.
    I'm pretty sure the NFL has a policy/regulation about the players owning/possessing firearms. If so, then why did he have it in the first place? By having a gun he went against what he was suppose to do. That alone made HIM not the gun at fault. Can't anybody take responsibility for anything anymore?
  • Medicinebow
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    "I'm pretty sure the NFL has a policy/regulation about the players owning/possessing firearms. If so, then why did he have it in the first place?"

    HUH? Please tell why they would have a policy about owning firearms. Are football players not capable/allowed to enjoy the same rights as the rest of society? Why would they not have a right to own a firearm?
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    NO-BAMA
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    @Medicinebow Why does anybody try to control others?
    Im guessing the NFL doesn't believe that the players should own firearms. They can't out right ban possession due to the 2nd ammendment.
    Take a look at this. Its the NFLs firearm policy. See for yourself.......
    http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story...
  • Medicinebow
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    @NO-BAMA Sounds like the NFL is VERY anti gun. Whoever wrote their statement doesn't respect the rights of players to choose.The NFL cannot decide that players can't possess firearms. Their policy contains some ignorant assumptions.

    He had a gun in the first place because he's allowed to.

    Glad my employer isn't like that......we even have a gun range at work.
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    ADudeCalledRay
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    @NO-BAMA The NFL is run by a bunch of gun control nazis.

    In response to the dumb@$$ that came up with this policy
    "Legal Possession. In some circumstances, such as for sport or protection, you may legally possess a firearm or other weapon."

    No shit Sherlock, it take you all season to figure that one out.

    "However, we strongly recommend that you not do so."

    And I strongly recommend that you stick that policy up your fourth point of contact.

    "Any weapon, particularly a firearm, is dangerous"

    Not really, a firearm is pretty safe to handle if you handle it safely and safe firearm handling is pretty easy for just about everyone, except for the retard that came up with this policy.
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    ADudeCalledRay
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    @Medicinebow The NFL is retarded when it comes to their players owning firearms. The policy makers think the players are retarded apes, just like the policy makers.
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    ctc
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    Those pesky guns..always going off by themselves.
    Ban Bob Costas for trying to offer up an alibi for someone who murdered their girlfriend one day earlier.
    What a shill for the NFL.....big money damage control.
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    classychazy
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    Not true! This young man was obviously very disturbed it would have not mattered if he had a gun or not he would have done what he did period. When someone is hell bent on hurt themselves and others ANYTHING can be used as a weapon. To say its the guns fault for the persons action is just wrong!
  • Thegrif
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    So it's the guns fault?
    "Guns don't kill people, people do."
    So, gun control only applies to those legal and responsible gun owners, the bad guys will still have guns.
  • Dan_Tien
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    No, he was not. I watch sports to see sports. I watch news to see news and editorials. Maybe Bob Costas should be removed from sports broadcasting and given a job as a pundit. Every time a high visibility shooting occurs there are televised calls for gun control in response.
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